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FreeTube still works for my Linux system, for most videos.
same
NewPipe or Patched YouTube App using ReVanced Manager
Revanced and Firefox + uBlock Origin.
First one's hard to set up, but I'm sure anybody self-hosting literally anything could do it in two seconds.
yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all <url> is the way. It turns playlist link into nicely named, curated video files awaiting to played by a regular video player
Does "all" remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.
I just use Newpipe
However, Piped and Invidious are not dead. YouTube is trying really hard to kill them but they still work somewhat. It is a cat and mouse game.
They're effectively dead. I haven't ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.
Probably because people self-host them. I have an invidious instance self-hosted and use clipious on android to watch videos on it. Feels super modern and have pretty much no issues. Public instances usually don't work because of datacenter ips get blocked by YouTube.
Grayjay by FUTO has been working well for me
Forgot about that one but it’s only on Android (mobile-wise)
I believe that YouTube supports RSS. I haven't used it in years, but gPodder allowed subscribing to channels.
Ah, yeah. From this post:
- Go to the YouTube channel page.
- Click more for the About box.
- Scroll down to click Share channel. Choose Copy channel ID.
- Get the feed from
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=plus that channel ID from the previous step.
From there, something (like a podcast client) needs to grab the video.
Otherwise, I've been using Tartube to download to my media server, which is not great but fine, except for needing to delete the lock file when it (or the computer) crashes, and the fact that the media server hasn't the foggiest idea of how to organize the "episodes."
Yeah, except there's no video link.
I had to write https://github.com/t184256/podcastify / https://github.com/t184256/yousable to actually get videos. Now, when I've done that, Bob's my uncle. Actually usable YouTube with automatic predownloading, local playback and no ads.
Thanks for this! It actually works with a regular RSS reader, nice!
On my phone I still use LibreTube but with the option to load the video directly from YouTube (essentially doing what NewPipe is doing) and on PC I just use YouTube's directly. I still use Piped to keep my subscriptions synchronized tho.
Unwatched is great on ios.
Whoa, this is it! This is what I’m looking for
This is awesome, thank you!
i "subscribe" via rss in freshrss, just use the normal youtube.com on desktop and mobile browser. StoptheMadness on iOS to strip ads
I used NewPipe for a while, now I'm trying out a fork called PipePipe. https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
"Absolutely proprietary"
Yeah, but at least it's source available :P
Non-commercial clause, for those who are curious.
My only issue with Grayjay (both Android and Windows app), is you have to manually export the videos out of Grayjay
If you try to grab the files directly, they don't work.
Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.
I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606
Orion browser works fine for me on iOS
My personal Invidious server works just fine.
piped.video still works for me: subscriptions, categories, comments. Watching is MPV
On iOS, I uninstalled the app and use Brave for YT & if I need to get on Reddit.